Of course, now as a woman you can do so much, without being necessarily a rinpoche.

The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can do anything, because they've seen the earlier ones do it. In this way, there's nothing for them to doubt.

In our endless past lives, we've all done everything, you name it, we've done it. Good, bad, intermediate.

Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with it.

Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So I talk about how people can stop separating dharma practice - going on retreats, going to dharma centers, hearing talks, reading books - from their ordinary life.

The future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped.

In Dharma practice, the most important thing is to be very sincere.